Johnson's Crossing
| Johnson's Crossing | |||
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 The Teslin at Johnson's Crossing |
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| Location in Yukon | |||
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Yukon | ||
| Coordinates : | 60 ° 29 ′ N , 133 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 15 (as of 2006) | ||
Johnson's Crossing (also Johnson's Crossing ) is a place in the Canadian Yukon east of Whitehorse .
It is located at the junction of Canol Road from the Alaska Highway , on the Teslin below the Teslin Lake . Here a bridge crosses the river. The place has 15 residents who live in eight houses. In 2001 there were still 20 residents.
The area around Teslin Lake was one of the most important salmon trapping sites in the entire Yukon next to the area around Old Crow , Klukshu and the area on the Yukon between Minto and Carmacks .
From about 1920 to 1970 Taylor and Drury maintained supply boats on the Teslin, the outermost post of which was Johnson's Crossing.
The Canol Pipeline, built between 1942 and 1944, began in the village and reached the Ross River after 230 km and the border of the Yukon Territory after another 240 km. It served to bring oil from Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories to Whitehorse . It was financed and built by the USA to provide sufficient propulsion during World War II. At the same time, a road was created, Canol Road, which is no longer used today.
The place was named after the American and Colonel Frank Johnson of the 93rd Engineers of the US Army . He was the senior officer in charge of building the Teslin River Bridge, the bridge over the Teslin .
In 1947 the Dane Robert (Thorbjold) Porsild (1898–1977), one of the four children of the botanist Morten Pedersen Porsild and director of the Biological Institute of Greenland, built Johnson's Crossing Lodge . He grew up in Greenland and went to Copenhagen to study in 1914, but was ill and never finished his studies. From 1926 to 1933 he and his brother Alfred (Alf) Erling Porsild were commissioned by the Canadian government to prepare an area near the Mackenzie Delta for a caribou herd. He then went to Sixtymile in the Yukon as a gold prospector and trapper , worked at Snag airfield and worked as a boat builder and carpenter on Canol Road , a central road for the local oil pipeline, which was used to supply the raw material essential to the war effort. After the war he ran the said lodge until 1965. From 1966 to 1968 he worked for the National Museum of Canada and recorded the wild plants in the Yukon.
Today the place is the starting point for canoe trips on the river.
literature
- Gus Karpes: The Teslin River. Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada , KUGH Enterprises, Whitehorse 1994 ISBN 9781896407005
Remarks
- ^ Statistics Canada
- ↑ Bruce W. Hodgins, Gwyneth Hoyle: Canoeing north into the unknown , Dundurn Press Ltd., 1994, p. 206
- ^ Keir Brooks Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, Lorne F. Hammond: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists , Westport: Greenwood 1997, p. 637.